Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Harry Hoffman

Reiner Jocher

Eberhard Baur

An arrangement for adjusting the reflector inclination angle of front headlights of a motor vehicle which contains an adjusting screw for the reflector provided with a teeth and a guide for a Phillips screwdriver which is used as an adjustment tool transversely with respect to the screw axis. In order to, on the one hand, achieve a simple mounting which can be automated and is secured with respect to a loss and to achieve, on the other hand, in a simple manner a secure guide of the Phillips screwdriver without any jamming, for adjusting the reflector, the toothing is molded onto the adjusting screw. The adjusting screw, on the head-side section, together with the molded-on teeth must have a smaller diameter than that of the shell passage provided for the adjusting screw. Furthermore, in order to axially fix the adjusting screw, detent elements must be provided which are molded to the shell for locking engagement with the screw. The guide is formed by a supporting web shaped out of the shell on the exterior side and with a distance to the adjusting screw. The supporting web has an insertion opening for the Phillips screwdriver which is oriented transversely to the screw axis and is situated at the axial side of the toothing.

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Sindelfingen, Germany

Harry Hoffman